And it especially won’t make sense for the communities, often working-class communities of color, who have landfills sited near them with heavy truck activity, and who would breathe in the brunt of this pollution.Ī Mack LR Electric garbage truck operated by the New York City Department of Sanitation. Imagine, fifteen years from now, that the vast majority of vehicles on California’s roads are electric – except for garbage trucks rolling along every street, and in every neighborhood, pumping out fossil fuel pollution. At the behest of vested interests in the waste industry, the rule may have a massive exemption allowing methane-burning refuse trucks to continue polluting in California well beyond other truck fleets covered by this rule. What’s more, a slew of states will follow suit and adopt California’s standards to clean up their state’s truck fleets, so the blueprint California builds now will have impacts across the country.īut, there is one corner of the regulation lacking in ambition that does not track with California’s leader status on zero-emissions - refuse trucks. The rule is crucial to making our air clean and safe to breathe, and protecting our climate from devastating levels of pollution. The California Air Resources Board - one of the most important air regulatory agencies in the world - is on the precipice of adopting a critical regulation to push hundreds of thousands of trucks to zero emissions in California. California’s refuse industry is trying to drive a garbage truck-sized hole in the Golden State’s landmark new regulation to shift trucks to zero emissions.
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